Star Anise Chronicles: Oh No Wheres Twig??

Oh, no! Star Anise can't figure out where his best friend Branch Commander Twig is! Can you master his cat powers and help him find Twig? Can you enlist help from the other lunekos? Can either of you remember what you were doing for more than thirty seconds?

Controls are arrow keys and Z/X. I'm sure you'll figure it out.

This is the hotly awaited 1½th game in the highly lauded Star Anise Chronicles series, all about the adventures of my cat's fursona, Star Anise. Keep an eye out for Star Anise 2, which will be like this, but bigger!

Made with PICO-8 in twelve days, with three tokens and zero bytes to spare! You can get the original cartridge and source code on the PICO-8 BBS, where there's also a speedrun version.

Comments

very cute :3 rowrsimple game but I like it, even replayed to find all stars and pap all things. was just a bit off since there was no extra reward or something for doing 100%(which is fair enough since you had 0 bytes spare >w<'') but still very nice.

The dialogues, well actually the texts in general, were pretty unique and made this game a really fresh experience. I think it'll be cool to show at the begining a little bit of their friendship, to motivate the player to look for his friend. Or maybe to have some flashbacks with those cool dialogues like "Twig loved this" and so, so we can connect more with the story.

In general it was a really cool experience, thanks :)

PS: I pressed like all the buttons on the keyboard at the first scene to find out how to Jump lol.

this game is very cute. I found myself mixing up which direction to swap my powerups a lot, but that's kinda just what happens when I'm not used to the game yet

I was thinking, if you're having trouble fitting buttons in on Pico8, have you ever tried using O or X as a modifier key? it might have been interesting to hold X down and press left or right for the pap, and up/down for the other two.. maybe that's too complicated for this game, but in the future if you're ever hurting for keys that might help